"The child prodigy, as a rule, children of parents with imagination"
Jean Cocteau

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"Children have neither the past nor the future, but unlike us adults, they know how to use the present"
Jean LaBruyer

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"When a child is scared, broken and in every way upset, then he begins to feel lonely from the very beginning"
Dmitry Pisarev

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"If a son outgrows his father, his father wears out his old trousers"
Yanina Ipokhorskaya

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"Parents are most reluctant to forgive children for the flaws that they instilled in themselves"
Maria-Ebner Eschenbach

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"If only parents could imagine how they bore their children!"
Bernard Show

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"Adults' fun is called a thing, they also deal with children"
Aurelius Augustine

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"There is no hymn on earth more solemn than the babble of children's lips"
Victor Hugo

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"The inquisitive boyish mind begins to work, as soon as the boy wakes up, and works until the first lesson begins"
Robert Frost

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"Daddy: the diminutive nickname children give their mother's husband"
Adrian Decursel

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"If people say bad things about your children - that means they say bad things about you"
Vasily Sukhomlinsky

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"If children grew in accordance with our expectations, we would grow up only geniuses"
Johann Goethe

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"Children need not teachings, but examples"
Joseph Joubert

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"Children who constantly call their mother are afraid that she will leave with another child"
Ramon Cerna

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"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that from now on he is allowed not only to be right, but also to be wrong"
Thomas Szasz

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"One child is enough to fill the whole house and yard"
Mark Twain

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"If you give in to the child, he will become your master; and in order to make him obey, you will have to negotiate with him at any minute "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"We all do something for the offspring; I would like to see what the offspring is doing for us "
Joseph Addison

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